Connecting Content And Academic Language For English Learners And Struggling Students Grades 26

Download or read book Connecting Content and Academic Language for English Learners and Struggling Students, Grades 2–6 written by Ruth Swinney and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create unit plans that will empower your EL students Award-winning teacher Ruth Swinney and Harvard graduate Patricia Velasco focus on the careful planning needed to develop the academic language of all students. For English learners especially, it is critically important to integrate language development with content. What makes this book unlike any other is the detailed guidance it provides in: Encouraging verbal expression in the classroom Planning units that link language with content Using shared reading and writing, read alouds, and conversation